“Seeking Follows”
| Title | “Seeking Follows” |
| Year for Search | 2019 |
| Authors | Ash, James |
| Secondary Authors | Graham, Mark, Kitchin, Rob, Mattern, Shannon, and Shaw, Joe |
| Secondary Title | How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables |
| Pagination | 1161-78 [298-303] |
| Date Published | 2019 |
| Publisher | Meatspace Press |
| Place Published | Np |
| ISBN Number | 978-0-9955776-7-1 |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | In the story, Twitter has taken over London after the collapse of democracy in 2038 and “follows” have become the main medium of exchange with those with the most follows selling their ability to gain attention to advertisers. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The author is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University. |
| Author Note | The author is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University. |
| Full Text | 2019 Ash, James. “Seeking Follows.” How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Ed. Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern, and Joe Shaw (Np: Meatspace Press, 2019), 1161-78 [298-303]. In the story, Twitter has taken over London after the collapse of democracy in 2038 and “follows” have become the main medium of exchange with those with the most follows selling their ability to gain attention to advertisers. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The author is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University. |
